The Importance of Toxic Positivity in Children

Toxic positivity is an avoidant coping strategy. It insinuates that negative feelings are okay, that you're not allowed to cry and allowed to be upset. But also on the flip side, like, that happiness is reinforced as well. When you have a happy baby, then you think, oh, good, you're doing such a good job as a mum, you've got a happy baby - but what that can do for a child is I have to be happy that's being celebrated or reinforced. That's what my parents want. Maybe that's how I receive love is by being happy or how I please my parents. I'm just going to stay happy. So it can

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